OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	224
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	186
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	99
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	92
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	73
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	73
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	70
Socio-political legitimacy: An integrative and interdisciplinary review and agenda for theory development in unit and programmatic approaches	60
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	53
Institutional distance and foreign firms’ live streaming use in the host market	50
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	48
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	47
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	42
Urban-suburban inventor connectivity and innovation quality: Evidence from intra-metropolitan innovation networks	41
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	40
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	39
A hybrid approach to internationalization: An exploratory study of social enterprises	39
Orchestrating boundary spanning for sustainable value: The cross-sector work of multinational enterprises	38
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	37
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	35
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	33
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	32
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	32
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	32
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	31

Corrigendum to “Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas” [Journal of World Business, Volume 59, Issue 4, June 2024, 101552]	30
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	30
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	29
Unlocking international entrepreneurial opportunities: The impact of dynamic capabilities on creation and discovery	28
Editorial Board	28
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	27
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	25
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	25
Advancing international business research through artificial intelligence and machine learning applications	24
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	24
Artificial intelligence and international business: Theoretical challenges, strategic implications, and research agenda	23
Unlearning diversity management	23
The digital transformation of international business: A conceptualization, multidisciplinary review, and research agenda	23
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	23
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	22
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	22
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	22
Local air pollution and expatriate deployment	21
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	20
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	20
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	19
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	19
Editorial Board	19
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	18
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	18
International business under sanctions	18
Corporate military activities and key frontiers in international business research	18
Editorial Board	18